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Mrs. Thomas argues has been projected to argue with Bigger because she considers Bigger to be the fault behind poverty of their family (Wright).
Gun and Blum are Bigger’s friends who have helped him in several robberies. In the wake of the story, it has become obvious that Bigger is not satisfied with his activities of robbing white men. His fears are to be caught as he believed that white men are smart enough to find out the reasons of loopholes. It is for this reason that Bigger continues to be rude to his friends because consciously he believes that it is better to be rude to them than robbing white men (Wright).
The fears of Bigger take him to a delusion phase of his life where he believes that white men are natural force. For instance, he notes that he is a coward when he kills Mary. He finds out the fact that he is a brutal man who never understood that life had value. While holding the corpse of Mary to stuff her in the furnace, he is frightened of himself which ultimately tells him that white men are natural force
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The issues of racism were so widespread especially in the southern part of America. The white settlers had taken blacks to be their workers in the plantations. In Black Boy, Wright writes eloquently and passionately about what it feels like to suffer when one is oppressed and exploited.

This is the entrapment in one’s own body, which is not so easy to escape as in the case when entrapment is related to some outer circumstances. The second group comprises contrasting external symbols of “white” freedom and mobility (such as the airplane so eagerly discussed by Bigger and Gus).

The social, cultural and ethical standards that had been set several decades ago and is consistently being adhered by human race in order to stay fit in whatever society they belong and defined the social constructs of the given society. The need to conform in these standards posed constraints and hindrances as well as inequality among the different members of society and among different gender and race.

Each novel's protagonist(s) represents a kind of everyman of his/her specific situation, and each struggles against the injustices of a hostile society. The struggles they undergo and their mental and physical activities while dealing with their hardships reflect the issues of the Americans of their time that fell into their racial and/or ethnic groups.

The book two is a continuation of the first book and focuses on the madness of the protagonist, Bigger. After he cannot control the urge to kiss Jane, he cannot control the urge to place the blame on the whites and so he commits a series of crimes. First he accidently

We have no right for a normal existence and such fact irritates me (Wright, 40-42). White people consider themselves as a higher race and occupy upper ranks in the society. We are supposed to serve under control of white people. I have served

Failure to empower their children is one of the ways in which the two women affect their children. Mrs. Thomas has a poor economic ability, which compels her to raise her family with financial difficulties. She does not have the capacity to educate her son, Bigger Thomas. Bigger, therefore, fails to earn an education.

Her experiences of female development have been meshed in the fictional character of her book, Janie. Nellie McKay considers the autobiographical notion as important in understanding the theme from the context of the author so as to realize the personal dimension present in the book (51).